Idle Resources Quotes

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The new frontier is idle men, money and machines, and all the resourcefulness, ingenuity and courage that reside in twelve or thirteen million unemployed men is helpless to take up this new frontier without tremendous organization of productive forces such as only government can supply when business is in the doldrums.

I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.